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The elderly and the incarcerated I have been associated with many prison ministries over the last quarter-century. I started teaching Bible lessons at the D.C. prison, Lorton Correctional Complex in Fairfax County, and later at a prison in...
Farmers Say Health Care Co-ops Have Worked For Them
On a dairy farm that Bob Topel likes to describe as 25 miles from anywhere, the term co-op is old hat. Co-ops have been around for well over 100 years in agriculture, Topel said while milking, feeding and other chores on his 660-acre farm....
Interests Cause Small Health Reform Conflict
When I started reporting on a doctor-rating project in three pilot cities including Denver, I was relieved to discover I had no conflict of interest. Even though I was among those who received a survey, I never returned it. After reviewing...
Calif. AG To Probe Rejection Of Medical Claims
LOS ANGELES_California Attorney General Jerry Brown is looking into claims that the state's top health insurers reject about 20 percent of medical claims. In a statement, Brown says deputies in his office are launching an independent inquiry...
Health Care Lobbyists Target Returning Congress
WASHINGTON_Interest groups are unleashing a torrent of modern and old-fashioned lobbying tactics at members of Congress returning for the autumn battle over health care, from spending sky-high amounts on TV ads to staging rallies in the cap...
Health Care Costs in U.S. To Jump 10 Percent In 12 Months
Health-care costs are expected to rise an average of 10.5 percent during the next 12 months, say researchers at Aon Consulting. Aon surveyed more than 60 health-care insurers representing more than 100 million policyholders. The survey foun...
Medicare pays providers 4 Times Cost Wheelchair, Report Says
Power-driven wheelchairs are costing Medicare and its beneficiaries nearly four times what suppliers pay for them, and competitive bidding could have reduced those costs, according to an inspector general's report released Wednesday. A stan...
Obama, Snowe Step Up Healthcare Talks
U.S. President Barack Obama and Senator Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, have intensified their discussions on a compromise health care, aides familiar with the discussions. The compromise plan could include a government-managed public health insura...
Prudential Group expands its disability insurance operations
Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU) Group Insurance business announced today the opening of an office management services to persons with disabilities in Scottsdale, Arizona The office is expanding its business operations for both the ab...
Polling Shows People as Happy with Public Insurance as Private
As Congress prepares to return to work on health reform legislation that may push a public insurer option, new polling shows that people are basically as happy with public health care programs as with private insurance plans. A Gallup analy...
Obama Plans Speech To Take Reins of health debate
WASHINGTON_President Barack Obama will address important health care to Congress next week, opening an emergency push to regain control of the debate was to escape under withering Republican-led attacks. Planning speech Wednesday night, jus...
Kerry says he'll Carry On Kennedy Health Care Push
SOMERVILLE, Mass._Sen. John Kerry said Wednesday he would meet one of the key political battles Senator Edward Kennedy, pledging to the thousands who attended the public meeting to lobby for health care reform advocated by his Democratic co...
State Bars 3 insurers in Bogus Health Plan
The Indiana Department of Insurance has banned three insurance companies from doing business in Indiana. Smart Data Solutions and American Trade Association LLC, both of Tennessee, and Serve America Assurance, a company allegedly based in B...
WellPoint CEO: care, not industry, should be repaired
WellPoint Chief Executive Angela Braly cast herself as an advocate for health-care reform during a speech Tuesday before the Economic Club of Indiana. What she's not so crazy about is what she calls health insurance reform -- any new public...
WellPoint CEO Calls for Quality in Health Reform
INDIANAPOLIS_A health care reform push that aims at the insurance industry misses a much bigger target in its quest to lower rising costs, WellPoint CEO Angela Braly said in a speech Tuesday. Three cents of every health insurance premium do...
HealthMarkets, Subsidiaries Banned From Selling Health Plans in Mass. for Five Years
HealthMarkets Inc. and two subsidiaries have settled a lawsuit by the Massachusetts attorney general that resolves allegations that the insurers deceptively marketed and administered health plans sold to businesses and individuals in the Ba...
Baucus Reform All AARP Members
HELENA, Mont._U.S. Senator Max Baucus told AARP members Tuesday that those who fear that a overhaul health care would affect their benefits government should know that even Medicare beneficiaries would be permitted under its plan. The leadi...
How a CHAT Can Forge Health-care Consensus
This update corrects the name of the nonprofit run by Marge Ginsburg. It is the Center for Healthcare Decisions. SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- What is health care, and how much of it should be covered by communal dollars in a private or pu...
A study reveals that Harvard Taxing job training, health services hit hardest working families
While the debate on reform of health care continues to unfold in public meetings on local and Capitol Hill, a new study by two Harvard researchers found that employment-based taxation of health benefits would heavily penalize the insured wo...
Calls For Bipartisanship Rise As Health Care Debate Nears
As Congress prepares to come back from its August recess and tackle health care reform, the question arises whether lawmakers will do something in honor of the Lion of the Senate -- or should Congress simply start over? Democratic Sen. Ted...
Health Insurance Competition Slim in Some States, Fuels Reform Efforts
Proponents of health reform say they want a government-run health insurer to give people more choice in how they are insured. Industry opponents say there is plenty of choice in the existing market, which includes hundreds of insurance comp...
Retirees Face Year Without Benefit Bump Millions Face Shrinking Social Security Payments
Millions of older people face shrinking Social Security checks next year, for the first time in a generation . The trustees who oversee Social Security are projecting that there won't be a cost of living adjustment for the next two years. T...
Kennedy's Death Being Used to Push Health-Care Plan?
HANNITY: And tonight on our great, Great American Panel, she has advised several Democratic campaigns and is a corporate fraud lawyer and partner at Barrack, Rodos, Bacine. Regina Calcaterra is back with us. He is a member of the Grammy-nom...
Analyst: Post-Kennedy Health Care Bill May Be More Sweeping
For almost 50 years, Sen. Ted Kennedy pushed unsuccessfully for legislation that would reform the health care system and ensure coverage for every American. Ironically, his death might bring about a change of tactics that would help reach t...
BestWeek: Health Insurance Competition Slim in Some States, Fuels Reform Efforts
OLDWICK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Proponents of health reform say they want a government-run health insurer to give people more choice in how they are insured. Industry opponents say there is plenty of choice in the existing market, which in...
Missouri Families Demand Representative Blunt to Stop Playing Politics With Healthcare Reform
Service Employees International Union members and their families, members of the community and concerned citizens gathered in front of Congressman Roy Blunt's office to demand why he continues to put politics before Missouri families. Avera...
Health Care Reform Likely To Affect Workers Compensation
Changes made to the nations health care system likely will affect workers compensation, even though legislation under debate makes no mention of occupational medicine, industry experts say. Because workers comp medical costs comprise just 3...
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